Compress PDF
Shrink scanned or image-heavy PDFs by re-rendering pages at a chosen quality.
Loading tool…
Processing happens on your device using your browser's CPU/GPU. Results are kept only in this tab's memory and are wiped when you click “Clear” or close the page.
About Compress PDF
Compress PDF shrinks heavy files by re-rendering every page as an optimised image at the quality you pick. It works best on scanned documents and photo-heavy brochures that are too big for an email or a portal upload limit. The whole job runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your device, and you see the before and after size before downloading.
How to use Compress PDF
- Load the PDF you want to make smaller.
- Pick a level: Extreme for the smallest file, Recommended for a balance, Light to keep detail.
- Tick Convert to grayscale if the document has no colour worth keeping, such as a scanned form.
- Click Compress PDF and check the size saving shown beside the result before downloading.
What people use it for
- Getting a scanned property document under a 2 MB upload cap on a government portal.
- Emailing a photo-heavy product catalogue that is too large to attach.
- Reducing a scanned Aadhaar and PAN set before attaching it to an online KYC form.
- Shrinking a phone-scanned marksheet that came out at 15 MB.
Good to know
Pages are converted to JPEG images, so text in a digitally created PDF stops being selectable or searchable and can look softer at the Extreme setting. Such files often barely shrink because they are already compact. If the result would end up larger than the original, the tool keeps your original and says so.